Top 50 Most Expensive Google Adsense Keywords

For everyone who is interested in advertising with google, this will be really useful:

With the raging economical crysis, there is no wonder that most expensive keywords for advertising are related to loans, mortgages and refinancing.

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Mary Popendieck On The Role Of Leadership In Software Development

I’ve stumbled on this video on youtube, very interesting, i am sure that you know the speaker, and if you don’t her name is Mary Popendieck, the co-author of the book “Lean Software Development”

From Google Tech Talks. It is a long video but well worthwhile to watch it.

Blogcamp CEE 2008

I’ve just registered for Blogcamp CEE 2008 and here is a bit information what it is, where and why.

Blogcamp CEE 2008 Will Gather in Kyiv Internet Professionals and Enthusiasts from Central and Eastern Europe

On October 17-19^th, 2008 – Blogcamp CEE 2008 (http://blogcampcee.com) will take place in Kyiv. Blogcamp is an international conference on new media: blogs, social networks, podcasting, online video, citizen journalism, start-ups and venture investments.

 

Blogcamp is organized for the second year in a row and this time it will gather participants not only from the post Soviet countries, but also from Central and Eastern Europe. 400 participants have already registered; over 500 are expected to attend.

Blogcamp CEE 2008 will also host Investor Day on 19^th of October. Investor Day is the key event for venture capital investments industry of CEE region. It will unite business owners and investors of TMT (Telecom, Media, Technologies). Investor Day agenda consists of panel discussions with investors and entrepreneurs, and Startup Contest with two nominations:

·      Seed Stage – the project is just an idea or on the stage of a prototype, the amount to be invested is €50,000-150,000.

·      Early Growth Stage – the company has started to sell products/services and is steadily growing, with small sales revenues; the amount to be invested is €500,000-1,000,000.

 

The projects will be evaluated by a group of experts and jury members – representatives of such investment funds as DFJ, which is one of the Top Ten of the largest world’s funds; Mangrove – the most successful European fund; Russian fund ABRT and others.

 

Denys Dovgopoly, Director of BayView Innovations Inc and a member of Blogcamp initiative group, states: “Participation in the Startup Contest is a great opportunity for authors and managers of Internet projects to present their ideas to investors and receive evaluation from professionals of the venture capital investments industry.” You can find more details about the contest on the web-site http://blogcampcee.com/ru/investors/contest. Over 80 projects have been already submitted for the competition. Investor Day is organized in partnership with BayView Innovations Inc.

 

Blogcamp CEE 2008 will be organized in barcamp format, which means that participants are proactively involved in organization of the event. They create agenda themselves – anyone can write the topic of their session, presentation or discussion on the blank table in the beginning of the first day of the conference. Each participant is the co-organizer of the conference – holding sessions, helping out with the technical organization, promoting Blogcamp in his/her blog. The conference is organized in informal atmosphere which stimulates discussions and sharing ideas. Register at http://blogcampcee.com to participate in Blogcamp.

Tags: BlogcampCEE, blogging, barcamp, web startups, internet startups and investment

Oracle Is Byuing Big Project Portfolio Management Player

Yesterday Oracle announced some interesting news for everyone interested about project management and project portfolio management, as Networkworld writes:

“Continuing its relentless streak of acquisitions in recent years, Oracle on Wednesday said it plans to buy Primavera Software, maker of project portfolio management (PPM) applications.The deal is expected to close by the end of this year. Terms were not disclosed.While large vendors like CA and IBM have offerings in the PPM arena, there are also a number of smaller vendors, such as Planview and Cardinis. As for Primavera, it “is the granddaddy of project management,” said Forrester Research analyst Ray Wang. “Every major construction project, every major road project. … This is like an industry standard.”Along with technology, Oracle stands to gain a significant customer base through the upcoming deal. Primavera’s software is being used by 375 of the top 400 engineering companies and all five branches of the U.S. military, according to a statement.”

All the smaller players in the market should disturbed, because it looks like Oracle is very serious and even before this Oracle had PPM solutions and, it was investing a lot in it and now even more. What will come up from this? I am not sure, but i hope it won’t affect the smaller vendors  and become as Google in search when we speak about project management, what are your thoughts on this topic?

Tags: Oracleand project portfolio management, project management news, project portfolio management

Microsoft Empowers Enterprises to Think Bigger About …

When reading this article Microsoft Empowers Enterprises to Think Bigger About …
“These new tools will empower companies to extend the benefits of BI across their ranks to information workers with minimal reliance on IT to help drive smarter, quicker decision-making, free up IT staff for more valuable activities, and dramatically drive down deployment costs.” Microsoft says, it looks like another never ending from the story of SaaS and On-Demand systems. I doubt that soon we will see a successful implementation of this product world wide, none the less all smaller vendors and project management software developers should be very careful, risks are increasing here, because imagine the possibilities of a system like that…..i guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Good luck Microsoft.
 

Tags: enterprisesoftware, business intelligence, microsoft and project management

Useful Project Management Resources

I thought that i would share with everyone the sites that i like to read about project management, or sites that have something interested to read on this topic, so here is my list, please note that some of these project management blogs haven’t been updated for weeks, or even months…shame, but none the less they have some interesting content :

• http://projectmanagementblog.com/
• http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/
• http://www.4pm.com/saga.html
• http://ni.comindwork.com
• http://projectmanagement.ittoolbox.com/blogs/
• http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/project-management/
• http://management.blogvis.com/
• http://blog.brodzinski.com/
• http://www.gantthead.com/
• http://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/
• http://www.pmhut.com/
• http://blog.softwareprojects.org/
• http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/

Well these are not all of them, but some of my favorites, what are your favorite ones?

Tags: projectmanagement blog, favorite management blog, project management rss feeds

Online Project Management and Collaboration Blog

You can find all my blog posts on my other blog, I will be adding a lot of content there their, like project management software reviews, project management and  collaboration tool directory, interesting articles on project management and much more, see you @ Online Project Management and Collaboration Blog

Time management lecture from Randy Pausch

What is time management? why do you need time management? Can you manage TIME? You can bet there are thousands of questions about time management, it is actually a never ending story, i invite you to watch a nice lecture presented at the Virginia University by Randy Pausch, enjoy 🙂

Top 5 when choosing Project Management Software

1. Feature Set – Companies have different views what a project management software should include, so read carefully before you choose. Do not get on the marketing tricks like “Our time tracking tool is the best project management tool”, keep your eyes open, a good project management software needs much more then that.
2. Web-based – can be accessed from anywhere, anytime, multi-user.
3. Support – everybody claims that their support is superior, but is it? First thing I’d do, I’d email support with some simple questions and suggestions maybe, and see how quick and how good the respond is.
4. Collaboration – first of all this means working with other team members on a task to reach a defined goal. In other words it’s just day to day communication, and you’ll want this to be as effective as possible – emails, blogs, video conferencing, intranets, extranets etc.
5. Integration – an integrated system combines project management or project planning, with many other aspects of company life. Can the system be integrated with a third party tools? Make sure it does.

Of course there can be said much more on this topic, but i think these are the key things to consider when choosing a project management software. Choose wisely! 🙂